It's amazing how quickly I can learn new things, considering how poorly I did in high school and college. The past couple of days at work there hasn't been much for me to do because I'm waiting on a couple clients to email me back with the content they want to go on their sites. So, in order to keep me busy, my boss gave me a crash course in ASP .NET as well as SQL. I'm already familiar with SQL, but I've never actually done it, so it was quite the learning experience. Being so used to PHP, the whole .NET environment is quite foreign to me and it took some time for me to get familiar with everything. On top of that, I had to do a little database stuff along with it, so I was basically learning two things at once. It didn't help that I was dead tired, having only gotten 4 hours of sleep and it being kind of hectic at work. I'd still rather be coding in PHP, but .NET is hot right now and it's definitely good to know, so I'm glad I'm learning it. Today I managed to code a simple form that inserts the data into a database. It's really simple and easy to do, but having never touched .NET code or SQL before, I was happy to have done even that. Tomorrow I have to finish off the other 7 forms that are on the site after setting up all the necessary tables. I'm going from one baby step to one giant leap for Ant-kind. At this rate I'll be a .NET/SQL expert by Friday, heh. I'm earning a reputation around the office of being able to very quickly pick up new stuff and apply it well. I don't, in any way, consider myself a genius, but the people at work seem to think so, since I get called that a lot it seems. I guess that's good, I just hope they don't start piling stuff on me. This is all great experience though, so I don't mind, yet anyway.
PS: Big thanks to Tim for giving me In Sides by Orbital a while back. I recently started listening to it again and I'm liking it a lot more this time around. It's been my coding music at work for the past couple days. :)
Lucky. I'm still teaching myself excel VBA and reviewing C++. Is .Net any easier? My manager told me to review C++ and if possible, try to look at C# as well. BTW, congrats on the new job. Wanna go out to eat on Saturday?
well, I'm doing ASP .NET which is pretty different from C++ or C#. actually I've never seen C# so I can't really speak about that, but like I mentioned, I'm so used to php that this whole asp nonsense is weird to me. I did a little more in-depth work with it today and I'm getting the hang of it. it's kinda neat what it can do, but I'm still php all the way.
Oh, and Saturday sounds good, I'll msg you later this week or Saturday to make arrangements.
You're welcome :)
I've looked into some of their other albums. Some are downright weird but others are pretty cool. I don't think any come close to In Sides, but that's just my opinion. Although they did the theme for The Saint, and while I haven't seen the movie, the song itself is one of my all-time favorites.
And on the coding note, I think I'll stick to PHP :) All the .net stuff seems really cool, but I think it's a bad idea to lock yourself into a platform if you don't have to. For instance, I am sort of wondering what is going to happen to ColdFusion now that Adobe owns it. Probably nothing, but you never know. I pushed for PHP back in the day at work over ColdFusion but I didn't win. Maybe I'm just bitter about not being able to do PHP at work...
.NET is probably good to know though :) So glad you're getting to learn some pretty neat new things. And I can't say a whole lot about platform-independence myself since I'm learning Cocoa, which, uhh, only runs on OS X :)